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DEFENDING champion Roger Federer continued his dominance over Richard Gasquet to reach the round of 16 at the Australian Open on Saturday and keep his quest for a 20th grand slam title on track. The Swiss star beat the Frenchman 6-2 7-5 6-4 in just under two hours in a night match on Rod Laver […]
Brazil has joined fellow BRICS members China and India in taking a tough line on cryptocurrencies by banning them from the country’s financial markets. Read more The South American country’s securities regulator has prohibited local investment funds from buying digital cash, Reuters reports. Cryptocurrencies cannot be considered financial assets, the regulator ruled. Earlier in December, […]
Published time: 20 Dec, 2017 12:33 Edited time: 20 Dec, 2017 12:34 The “colossal ego” of chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier is said to be angering other EU officials, after the French politician slammed UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s trade deal hopes, despite reportedly being warned not to. On Monday, Barnier revealed – seemingly without […]
Published time: 5 Dec, 2017 23:53 President Donald Trump made building a wall on the southern US border the centerpiece of his election campaign. But new data shows border detentions are at the lowest level in several decades. “Build that wall” was a common chant at rallies in support of Trump, but border crossings are […]
Following years of complaints by users, Google is cracking down on Android apps that show shady ads on your lock screen, according to a new developer policy spotted by Android Police. That includes very popular ones like ES File Explorer, which has over 100 million downloads to date. They often force annoying, obtrusive and even […]
Enlarge (credit: Google Play Store) Google is cracking down on apps that use Android’s accessibility API. Even though the APIs have been around for years without any kind of rules about usage, Google has now started telling developers that using the accessibility API for anything other than helping users with disabilities will result in a […]
Fox’s coverage of the World Series Game 5 — in which the Astros (SPOILER ALERT!) pulled off a dramatic 13-12 victory in 10 innings — on Sunday night drew north of 20 million total viewers while scoring a 5.5 demo rating. That marks nearly double the preliminary numbers for Saturday’s Game 4. Opposite the Fall […]
A new idea called the “information bottleneck” is helping to explain the puzzling success of today’s artificial-intelligence algorithms—and might also explain how human brains learn. https://media.wired.com/photos/59c454066b68ba036e029290/master/pass/InfoBottleneck-FA.jpg Feed: All Latest
South Koreans who were planning to raise funds using cryptocurrency will have to find an alternative method. The country has decided to follow in China’s footsteps and has banned raising money through all forms of virtual currency, according to Reuters. As TechCrunch noted, businesses around the globe have raised over $ 1.8 billion this year […]
Good news out of a court in San Francisco: a judge just issued an early ruling against LinkedIn’s abuse of the notorious Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) to block a competing service from perfectly legal uses of publicly available data on its website. LinkedIn’s behavior is just the sort of bad development we expected […]
